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Online Incidental Exposure to News Can Minimize Interest-Based Political Knowledge Gaps: Evidence from Two U.S. Elections

Overview of attention for article published in The International Journal of Press/Politics, April 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
twitter
44 X users

Citations

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18 Dimensions

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33 Mendeley
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Title
Online Incidental Exposure to News Can Minimize Interest-Based Political Knowledge Gaps: Evidence from Two U.S. Elections
Published in
The International Journal of Press/Politics, April 2021
DOI 10.1177/1940161221991550
Authors

Brian E. Weeks, Daniel S. Lane, Lauren B. Hahn

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 33 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 15%
Student > Master 4 12%
Lecturer 3 9%
Unspecified 3 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 9%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 11 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 48%
Unspecified 2 6%
Arts and Humanities 2 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Linguistics 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 11 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 February 2024.
All research outputs
#1,032,079
of 25,490,562 outputs
Outputs from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#68
of 539 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,104
of 454,373 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#10
of 30 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 539 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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